Why some college professors are adopting ChatGPT AI as quickly as students

Abstraction: ChatGPT disruption of higher education from professor perspective

Key points:

• NYU/Wharton/Princeton study: 8 of the top 10 professions "most exposed" to LLMs are teaching positions; English, foreign language, and history professors top the list
• Unlike prior tech disruption which hit routine jobs, this study finds highly-skilled labor is more exposed — reversing the usual pattern
• Wharton professor Ethan Mollick requires students to use ChatGPT in every document they produce
• ChatGPT hallucinations (confident fabrication of non-existent references) framed as a teaching opportunity for critical analysis skills
• Duolingo uses ChatGPT to generate lesson content and power its English proficiency test with AI-assisted proctoring
• Key nuance from researchers: "exposure to AI" does not necessarily mean replacement

Connections: Chatgpt · Openai · Duolingo · Large Language Models · AI In Education

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/02/why-college-professors-are-adopting-chatgpt-ai-as-quickly-as-students.html